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The Forevers (Paperback)
Curt Pires; Artworks by Eric Scott Pfeiffer
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R561
R458
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From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in
1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security
closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the
Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of
the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world. Florian
Henckel von Donnersmarck's 2006 film The Lives of Others (Das Leben
der Anderen) has received international acclaim -- including an
Academy Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and multiple German
Film Awards -- for its moving portrayal of East German life under
the pervasive surveillance of the Stasi.
In Totalitarianism on Screen, political theorists Carl Eric
Scott and F. Flagg Taylor IV assemble top scholars to analyze the
film from philosophical and political perspectives. Their essays
confront the nature and legacy of East Germany's totalitarian
government and outline the reasons why such regimes endure.
Other than magazine and newspaper reviews, little has been
written about The Lives of Others. This volume brings German
scholarship on the topic to an English-speaking audience for the
first time and explores the issue of government surveillance at a
time when the subject is often front-page news. Featuring
contributions from German president Joachim Gauck, prominent
singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, journalists Paul Hockenos and
Lauren Weiner, and noted scholars Paul Cantor and James Pontuso,
Totalitarianism on Screen contributes to the growing scholarship on
totalitarianism and will interest historians, political theorists,
philosophers, and fans of the film.
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Pendulum (Paperback)
Eric Scott Sutherland
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R311
R255
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The poems in this humane collection are hard and beautiful. They
are hard, because the locals here are marginalized and somewhat
lost, yet beautiful because they live with hope, and because each
poem in this heartfelt book is accompanied by singing. Behind this
cast of characters is the poet himself, a living spirit, capturing
the human voice, swinging back and forth like the symbol evoked by
the title of this honest and necessary collection. This is at once
a portrait and a vision rendered into lines, notation for a place
and time and the saintly people there. It is a gift to be in such
able hands, and a further gift to turn the pages of their labor.
Three cheers for this delight -Maurice Manning
Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two
brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that
unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book
focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of
former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an
African American publisher, a census graph published in the New
York Times, and a cutout of a child's hand sent by a southern
mother to her husband at the front. The essays in this collection
reveal how wartime women and men created both written accounts and
a visual register to make sense of this pivotal period. The
collection proceeds chronologically, providing a nuanced history by
highlighting the multiple meanings an assorted group of writers and
readers discerned from the same set of circumstances. In so doing,
this volume assembles contingent and fractured visions of the Civil
War, but its differing perspectives also reveal a set of
overlapping concerns. A number of essays focus in particular on
African American engagements with visual culture. The collection
also emphasizes the role that women played in making,
disseminating, or interpreting wartime images. While every essay
explores the relationship between image and word, several
contributions focus on the ways in which Civil War images
complicate an understanding of canonical writers such as Emerson,
Melville, and Whitman.
Essential reading for physicians, legislators, economists,
ethicists, and anyone interested in reproductive health policy,
this is the first economic & demographic analysis to articulate
why molecular genetic techniques must be integrated with IVF going
forward. The consequences of multiple embryo transfers with
conventional IVF are presented with an emphasis on the economic
impact of these 'super-utiliser' outcomes. Dr. Sills depicts embryo
selection in traditional IVF as an incomplete procedure, and
forecasts the recovery of California health spend in the context of
comprehensive (embryo) chromosomal screening using array
comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) and single embryo
transfer. A funding formula is developed to show how partial
government support for every IVF cycle in California can still be
net revenue positive for the state--because although IVF+aCGH is
expensive, the price to obtain this technology is always less than
the cost for one high-risk preterm/multiple birth. Dr. Sills
reinforces the compelling primary interest in lowering the preterm
delivery rate from IVF, yet improved access to IVF is also framed
as a major secondary public health benefit.
This book offers updates on the full range of contemporary GnRH
knowledge, as articulated by authoritative contributors with
extensive neurophysiology experience. In this new comprehensive
volume, internationally-renowned experts explain what GnRH is,
describe how it works, follow its associated pathology, and predict
where future GnRH research is likely headed. These objectives are
clearly developed by sixteen concise yet thorough chapters covering
themes across human clinical medicine, veterinary science, marine
organisms, and transitional states as observed in so-called "living
fossils", as well as invertebrate biology. The authors depict GnRH
fundamentals as a starting-point for examination of more recent
data in this rapidly evolving field. Although ideally suited for
the senior GnRH researcher, anyone with an early, basic interest in
neuroendocrinology will also find this book highly approachable.
Fully illustrated, indexed and annotated, this edition is an
essential item in any modern personal or institutional GnRH library
collection.
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